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World Quotes by Howard Zinn
- If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your…
- There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is…
- It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the…
- Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side!…
- The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some…
- Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of…
- What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do…
- George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of…
- The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world…
- The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.
- My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will be able to…
- I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in…
- Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of…
- The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger…
- We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can…
- Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
- What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to…
- And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not…
- The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary.…
- There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people…
- Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
- I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I…
- If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country,…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach